Mary Halvorson - Code Girl flac album

Album · 2018 · 14 Songs. The fractured rhythmic and timbral landscapes and angular melodies of Mary Halvorson’s music intermingle in new ways with Code Girl, a double album featuring vocalist Amirtha Kidambi, who sings Halvorson’s original lyrics with a determined grace. The set has an appealingly damaged art-song quality, sacrificing nothing in terms of instrumental grit.

Over some 22 albums, Halvorson has developed an expressive musical strategy that is as idiosyncratic as it is provocative; no genre seems beyond her grasp. Code Girl is not only the title of this double-length album - comprising some 14 songs and nearly 90 minutes of music - but also the name of a new quintet that includes bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Tomas Fujiwara from her Thumbscrew trio, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, and vocalist/bandleader Amirtha Kidambi (Elder Ones).

Mary Halvorson: Code Girl by Claudio Bonomi, published on December 26, 2018. Code Girl non è solo il primo album per il quale la Halvorson ha scritto musiche e parole, ma forse quello più riuscito in termini di originalità e sintesi di linguaggio. A partire da uno studiato e particolarissimo approccio melodico, ben interpretato dalla vocalità aliena (a volte sembra un mezzosoprano) della Kidambi, sempre, comunque filtrato da una tensione continua all'improvvisazione. Tra i brani migliori la straniante Possibility of Lightning, l'intensa Storm Cloud, la frastagliata Pretty Mountain e la trascinante e melanconica The Unexpected Natural Phenomenon

Artist: Mary Halvorson.

Code Girl was Halvorson's first attempt at writing lyrics for her original works, which are sung by Amirtha Kidambi and inspired by the songwriting of Robert Wyatt and Elliot Smith. The album also features drummer Tomas Fujiwara, bassist Michael Formanek and Blue Note trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire. Code Girl is named after an offhand remark by her teacher Anthony Braxton, who used the phrase.

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Code Girl features Halvorson, Akinmusire, vocalist Amirtha Kidambi, the elastic underpinning of Michael Formanek on double bass, and the polyrhythms of Tomas Fujiwara on drums. Code Girl is a sobriquet from Anthony Braxton, one of her mentors at Wesleyan and with whom she performed as a member of his Diamond Curtain Wall trio and orchestra. Since then, Halvorson has been ubiquitous, expanding her art with each new recording, traveling quite a highly-successful, highly-acclaimed, very collaborative, chameleon-like, circuitous, very eclectic musical route. And there is so much more to enjoy on this album which is yet another great addition to the Mary Halvorson discography.

Code Girl is the terrific debut from what might be her most ambitious band, a quintet for which she not only wrote music, but also lyrics. The core of the ensemble-bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Tomas Fujiwara-work with her in the long-running collective Thumbscrew.